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Don't sit as if you have nothing to say. You should be bursting with things to say. You just choose at this particular place and time, not to say them.

Michael Caine

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Michael Caine
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: March 14
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Maurice Joseph Micklewhite
Maurice Joseph Micklewhite Jr.
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And to Tom Cruise, for if you had won this, your asking price would have gone down so fast. Do you have any idea what supporting actors get paid? We get only one trailer, a small one, in the back.
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I don't think human beings are bad. They're weak. And that's what makes 'em bad.
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Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.
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I'm hoping there's an afterlife. As you get older, you hope even more fervently.
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I never listened to the people who said I should give it up, which is the main advice I got.
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Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.
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At 69, I got the girl! And it wasn't a 68-year-old girl, either.
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Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!
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I won an Academy Award for 'The Cider House Rules,' playing an American.
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There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.
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The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.
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80 percent of any gang is not there to attack someone. They're there so no one will attack them.
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I don't want to sound like Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells, but I do think there should be some sort of national service for young men.
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I never regret anything. I always said that when I'm old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I did and not the things that I didn't do and now I'm old, and I don't regret anything! I had fun. I had fun, and I'm still having it.
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